A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012
Topics to cover Future of the Book Future of Libraries A Library with a Future
Where I Come From Director of Hospital Library Director of Science and Engineering Library Director of Undergraduate Library Associate Dean of ARL library system Dean of Library at Wake Forest University
Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity 2 million volumes 2,000 print journals, 50,000 e-journals Open 140 hours/week 53 library faculty/staff $ 7 million budget 2011 ACRL award
Books and Libraries
Library Learning Terrace Drexel University
Where We’ve Been Library as Gatekeeper Of Books
2005 OCLC Report “Books” is the Library BRAND
Where we are
Tipping…tipping…tipped?
The Future is Digital Digital content: Journals (went first in scholarly world more than a decade ago) Newspapers (fastest popular media to fall) Books (tipping fast right now) Media (with mega storage needs) Data (next frontier for academic libraries) Publishing (office of digital publishing at Wake)
Look Down the Beach
Two Different Constituencies Students Faculty
Some Books are More Equal than Others
Future of Libraries
Library as Teacher
Library as Technology Leader
Library as Thinking Partner
Library as Place
A Library with a Future
Embedded in class
Library Lecture Series
Academic Symposium
Senior Showcase
The Big Read
Wake the Library
Graffiti Wall
Creative study
5K Fundraiser
Capture the Flag
Humans v Zombies
Library Decorating Committee
A Happy Place to Work
Our Mission The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library Is to help our students, faculty and staff SUCCEED!
Image Credits Books: sizes/m/in/photostream/ Terrace: 0,8599, ,00.html Gate: hampton-gate.htmhttp:// hampton-gate.htm Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardyOctober 6, 2008rosiehardy Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max ZApril 10, 2009Max Z Footprints: Baby: sizes/m/in/photostream/ Old men: Gutenberg: gutenberg/
Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. Dean, Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC